Mango

I understand economic growth, and its need in Buffalo, but please nothing like Patriot Place in Buffalo. The lot size is approximately a half a square mile, think, half of Kenmore. If you need something to go off of, it is about 3-4 times the lot size of the Galleria Mall. And people want to put that on the waterfront(ish). Something like this doesn't act synergy with the canalside area, it actually is the opposite. Paving a good portion of downtown for more or less a mall is a terrible idea. Skating, music, the riverwalk or whatever they are calling what is going in there, do not work hand in hand with small village sized shopping centers. There is a reason that this place is built 30 miles outside of Boston, and it isn't just available real estate.

I've said for a while that any cap number should include coaching and scouts/gm

But it's not the same. Setting the balls above regulation prior to inspection is different than changing post inspection. Prior to a snap being taken, Rodgers gives the officials a chance to write the wrong. Think weigh in sports, I can speak to rowing. At the World Champs or the Olympics, lightweights have a weigh in window. Everybody is pushing the upper limits, guys weigh in as heavy as possible. They sometimes get in the scale a few tenths over, cutting it pretty close. They fail the weigh in and have up to 60' to weigh in again. They sweat, and compete within the rules. Rodgers allows the officials to do their jobs and mandate he competes within the rules. There is nothing wrong with that. Now if Rodgers refills the balls post weigh in, that's a different story. I am a proponent of the game balls being handled by the officials during the game with psi perimeters/specifications from each team. Balls are to be checked again at the half and finish of the game.

Chandler is above average at his position. I think it's just the bandwagon that ,"we need to upgrade the TE position". We are by no means set at TE, but cutting Chandler is by no means addition by subtraction, it is pure subtraction. Eric Wood is going nowhere. He has been voted by the players in the NFL, as one of the most underrated OL in the league, and best at his position. There was an article/vote a while ago. I'm on my phone so am not able to find it. Urbik is going nowhere he is the best gaurd on the roster, and the position is the weakest. Fred is safe, and his contract really is modest, so it doesn't make much space. There is a difference between clearing cap space, and getting rid of guys you don't like. Without a solution other than, "find anybody off the street" is just creating wholes and more weakness. It's moves like a lot of the ones posted that have kept us in the basement for the last decade. Draft solidly and a few role players in FA is the answer, cutting your better players without replacement is not. You don't cut your best gaurd and center, then cross your fingers you find 2 FA without overpaying for mediocrity you more or less already had. The reality of our OL situation is that I think we have better personel than we are getting output. I think we are above average at LT and C, Average/Servicable at RT and LG (Urbik). We have a HUUUGE need at The opposite gaurd position. Look for similar personel and a huge upgrade in production under Roman and Co. That said I don't think Richardson and CK are answers at this point, but I wouldn't call them busts. Some of these moves might make more sense next year if we have a good draft this year. Look for us to draft a replacement for KW in the next year or two. His contract is relatively large and he is aging.

And being benched in San Fran was.....

Peters. Then I can finally agree with all the kick Cordy in slide posts. Line would go Peters Glenn, Wood Urbik Henderson. That is more than servicable and would produce a running game with just about any back in the league.

Not that I disagree with your overall post, but.... 1) best run organizations in the NFL? Big market and exposure doesn't mean well run. You had Mangini and Herm before Rex. The GM position there has been garbage for a while. Groh is the only coach under Johnson (I didnt include Parcells because his last year was 99, and Woody bought the team in 99). 15 years 5 coaches, all losing records overall. The Bills have been hot garbage for about the same period, and nobody is calling us well run over that time. Infact the current FO is probably the most supported so far, and there are still people who think its a mess. 2) the Ravens thing. Bisciotti has said that he normally takes a back seat for those decisions. But got a personal recommendation from Hoodie himself, so stepped in and pushed the hire. Not sure if Rex was the front runner prior to that. May not have been, which would make your point valid. 3) I thought Bart Scott played a lot a pretty high level for a while. I don't know what the contract was, or his weekly production since I don't watch a ton of you guys, but every time I did Bart looked like a good player. 4) you did overachieve on D this year considering talent at corner in relation to the system. Which proves a prior point of yours. I took those comments as finger pointing at terrible offensive production rather than blind optimism of the how well they played. 5) your QB situation was much worse than ours. Geno has some better games than EJ, but EJ has yet to lay a single clunker that is anything similar to what Geno has done at times. Also Vick is garbage. I hope you're wrong about personel usage and adjustments. It will absolutely be in the back of my head through the season.

It's like he's the reverse of Kiko

I took a swing by the Jags board, not one of the registered TBD commentors, but I am astonished at how happy they are with the hire. Really odd. I get being OK with it, I get being neutral, and try rose colored glasses, but they are all really happy about it with no negativity. I credit it to they don't know much about football. Makes me appreciate this place more, even if I don't agree with all of you.

By no means am I rooting for the Pats, but as time goes on I am really growing a great deal of respect for still being able to watch Brady play his position at the level he does at his age. The guy is as fierce a competitor as they come, and his moxy would be labeled very Buffalo if he was here. That said I love watching him cry too! Billy on the other hand....

My heard a while back they have the smallest scouting department in the league. Also that Marvin Lewis does most of it, but not necassarily out of choice or job, but out of necessity. His job is more or less eternally safe because the franchise realizes that their ratio of success to resources is very high.

Buffalo has never snuffed this version of EJ.

I've ling said the salary cap should include all staff. Obviously not secretaries, but scouts, GMs, coaches, and trainers. Whatever that number needs to be, make it so.

I can answer this. I know pro cyclists, and Olympic athletes. Some sports are clean some are dirty. Cycling is impossible to win clean. Literally impossible. The sport is trash, not as an athletic endevour but in terms of integrity.

I'd agree with that too. It isn't so much that it helped the Pats win. It didn't, it's an integrity issue. Billy will get somebody to fall on the sword for him.

If they find it true, they should take the win away from the Pats immediately and send Indy to the SB

I like all blue at home and all white on the road. Call me crazy. I also think we have the best unis in the NFL. Not just as a fan. The old ones circa Losman era were horendous

A lot to like about the presser, one thing that grabbed my attention was Pegula's quote on Brandon/Rex, "Don't let him leave the building" or something along those lines. I wish that guy would get out of any position that allows him to give football opinions.

Well one of us used capital letters and the other used lowercase. This is capital i=I, this is lowercase L=l. But nice try. I'll do it again for you...Iupati. And yes that's spelled correctly. Because you don't know the difference between capital and lowercase letters, I'll assume you don't know anything about anything.

We seem to be the only ones thinking the same about the OL. I don't expect Iupati, but I expect an upgrade there. Otherwise I think we are good at LT, C, and RT. Urbik is serviceable, but not preferable. So there is SOME coaching that could make this much better. Then add a piece or two

This will be an interesting matchup down the line. 2 very good DEfensive HC's, paired with two very different but good OC's. I wish I could enjoy rooting against Chan, but he is one of my favorites of this generation of Bills (whatever that means). I'll be curious to see what he can do with Geno. I wish Marrone would have gotten the Jets job, he would have been fun to root against.

I'm anti new stadium. But if one is built it needs to be a dome and seat about 55k. I am also anti-done for a new stadium. It needs to be able to be used more than 8 times per year if it is going to take up space in the central business district. I know I sound like one big hypocrit, but what I want vs. what makes sound business sense for the city are two different things.

You wrote Reagan to complain about somebody trying to cleanup hazardous waste in your backyard? Explanation? As a planner these days, any superfund sites have to be approved/recommended by the DEA. Locally any superfund site is generally a really hazardous brownfield. Hickory Woods is still a point of conflict in SoBlo, and that took over a decade to even acknowledge a problem. Sorry maybe this is better for PPP

All depends on how Rex approaches ST. Starters playing on ST=success, back ups =mediocrity at best. That was the biggest difference between 13 and 13

I don't get all the, "the sky is falling" stuff. Yes I am a fan of the hire, but Christ, Rex knows defense, his defenses have been better than than anything we have put out for years. Why wouldn't we improve. Also news flash, all teams are running hybrids. Wade Phillips was running something like 52% of plays out of the 3-4. The defense will be better. Let's not forget, the defense was less than dominant when in mattered most this past season. Good enough yes, dominant no. We will be fine. Let whatever happens happens on D. If we are going to worry, make it on the other side of the ball.